We’ll level with you: By the time you finish this article about the slang you can expect to hear from your school-aged child this year, it will already be out of date. Such is the nature of children. Since the dawn of time (we’re guessing), the cycle is as follows: The children come up with...
Everyone knows that reading is important, but it’s still easy to feel overwhelmed by its significance. Whether your kid’s a natural bookworm or not, encouraging a love of reading — and hopefully honing some skills — can feel more complicated than it actually is. But before you start buying a bunch of phonics books or...
We teach our kids all kinds of things. How to tie their shoes. How to ride a bike. How to say “please” and “thank you.” How to swim. Parenting is an endless loop of lessons — many practical, some even silly. But then there are the big things, the ones that literally shape our kids’...
Sitting your 5-year-old in front of a laptop and helping them log in to school for the first time probably felt surreal and a little dystopian. Little did we know the COVID-19 pandemic wouldn’t just mean staying home for a few weeks, or even a few months — no, it meant many of our children...